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i ed to diminish this debt, have another destination . given them. Lastly, in the penury of its means, Spain, abandoning totally her marine, occupies her self with the augmentation of her land force. Great evils can only be aired bygreat changes. • ".The Most pres Sing object of solicitUde ,with your, Majesty is. the war against England.'" England an nounces that she will not come to any accommoda tion. All. the overtures of your Majesty have been rejected or neglected. The inability to continue the war will alone induce England to make pea Ce. The war against her, therefore, cannot be carried on with too much vigour. Spain possesses maritime resources which are lost to her and to France. It is necessary that a good Government should give them adivity, improve them by a judicious organization, and that your majesty should direct them apanst the common enemy, to arrive at length at peace, which humanity calls for, and of which all Europe stands so anuch in need. Every thing that leads ,to this end is legitimate. The interests of. France and those of . Continental Europe will not allow your Majesty to negled the only means by which the war against • England can be carried on with success. s " The present situation of Spain compromises the security of France, and the fate of the war against England. Thai country, which possesses the greatest maritime means in ,Europe uses them the least. " will not be to France a sincere and faithful friend, nor can the war against England be continued with the hope of arriving at peace,aln , tit a common interest shall unite the two Houses reigning in France and Spain. The dynasty Which govern Spain, thi - ough its affections, its recollections, its fears, will be always the secret enemy of France; an enemy the more perfidious, because pretending to be friendly, and yielding every thing to FranCe whilst viaorious, it. will be ready to overwhelma t her the moment her viaory becomes uncertain. " It will be for the interest of Spain as well as of France, that a firm hand should re-establish order in her Administration, the disorder of which has crip pled her:Government, and leads to that ruin towards which she is hastening with rapid strides. A Prince, the friend of France by sentiment, by interest, hav ing nothing to fear from her, and not being an ob ka of distrust to her, will appropriate, all the re sources of Spain to her interest, prosperity, to the re establishment of her marine, and to the success of the cause which unites Spain to France and the Con tinent. Thus the wurk of Louts X IV. will be re established. " What policy suggests, justice authorises—Spain Is rtaiiy in a state of war with your Majesty, her communication with England was an hostile aa,. her Proclamation of the 15th of Oaober, was really a declaration. of War, which would have been follow ed by an act of- aggression if your Majesty had not conquered at Jena. In that case, the Departments en the left of the Loire, which your Majesty had left without troops; would have been obliged to fly • to repel this nets enemy. " The French Merchants in Spain have lost their ancient privileges, the laws of the customs were di re Bed chiefly, against French commerce, and were Tel - NO . :able for their arbitrary and perpetual varia , lion. These variations could not be known, no pub licity was given to them. It was only at the Cus- torn-house That it was learnt that the law of one clay : was not the law of the. next. Merchandise confiscated often without any pretext, was never re stored. All . the applications made by, or on behalf of the French, were Tejeaed. Whilst Spain was thus making war in detail upon the French and their commerce, all her purrs, and chiefly those of the Golph Gascony, were open to English commerce. The law 'of blockade proclaimed in Spain similar to that of France, was only rendered the means of fa vouring still more the contraband trade of England, the m&rchandize, of which was spread through Spain into the rest of Europe, " Exclthive, however, of the considerations which I have stated, existing circumstances do not per mit your Majesty to refrain from interfering in the affairs of that kingdom. Tile King of Spain has been precipitated from his Throne, your Majesty is. called upon to judge between the father and the son. What part will yOu take ? Will ybu sacrifice the cause of Sovereigns, and sanction an outrage corn . milted Against the Majesty of the Throne ? Will yOu leave on the Throne a Prince who cannot with draw himself from the yoke of England, in conse (pence of which your Majesty must constantly keep on foot a powerful army in Spain. 11, on. the con trary, your Majesty determines to replace.CH.AgLs W. on the Throne, it is known that it cannot be done without overcoming a great resistance, and • :bedding French blood. " Cain that blood, of which the nation is prodigal 'for the defence of its own interests, be shed -for the intcre ) t of a foreign King, whose fate is of no con sequence to France.—Lastly, Can your Majesty, taking no interest in these important differences, abandon the Spanish Nation to its fate, while alrea dy it is..agita'ted by an extreme fermentation ; and whe❑ EDgland is sowing the seeds of trouble and of anarchy, ought your Majefity to leave this new prey ,to England to devour'? No; certainly not Tour Majeity, therefore, occupied of necessity' with the regeneration of Spain, in a manner 9seful to that kingdom, and useful to France, ought neither to re-establish, at the price of much bloodshed, a 'de throned King, nor abandon Spain to herself; for in both cases it would be delivering her to the English, whose money and intrigues have produced the dis, sentions in that country. " I have stated to your Majesty the circumstances which demand a great determination. Policy advises, justice'a.uthorizes, the troubles in Spain inforce the necesSity—yours Majesty ought to provide for the security of the Empire, and•save Spain from the in-. fluence of England. " I am, with respe&, &c." REPORT OF THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Paris, Sept. a, 1808. " SIRE—I have the honour to propose to your Majesty to communicate to the Senate the two Treaties which have placed the Crown of Spain in your hands, and the Constitution which 'under your auspices, and enlightened by your advice, the Junta assembled at Bayonne, after free and mature delibera tion, .have adopted. for the glory of .the Spanish name and the prosperity of that Kingdom and its Colonies. " If in the arrangements made by- your Majesty the security of France has been' your principal care, the interest of Spain herself has, however, been dear, and in uniting the two States, by the most intimate alliance, the 'prosperity and the glory of both were equally the objects proposed. The troubles which 'have-manifested themselves have particularly excited the solicitude of. your Majesty, in depre cating their pregress, in foreseeing their sad con sequences, in hoping to prevent them by persua sive means, and by measures of wise and humane policy. Your Majesty interfered as a mediator in the midst of the divided Spa n i ar d s , Sh ew i ng t h em on one side the anarchy which threatened them, and'on the other, England ready to profit by their divisions, and to make use of them to suit her convenience, and pointing out to them the way by which they might be Saved from thi's double danger, by a constitution even provident, proper to provide ail of what they stood in need, and in which,ii,beral ideas intermixed themselves with those ancient institutions which Spain wished to be preserved. " The expectations of your Majesty have been deceived. Individual interests, foreign io'rives, and the influences of 16reign corruption, have prevailed. Why is it so easy to lead nations to their ru by letting loose thic passions ? In a former report, I have made your Majesty acquainted with the influ ence which the English were acquiring in Spain, the numerous parly that they had formed, the friends wnotn they had aacquired in 'the commercial towns, by holding out to them the prospect of a revival of their trade; I had pointed them out to you as au thors of the sedition which overturned the Throne of CHARLES IV. and the favourers of the popular dis orders which arose at that epirh. They had bu rs t through that salutary restraint which keeps the people in submission, by operating upon. their in terest. " The populace of Spain having shaken off the yoke of authority, aspired -at governing. English gold, the intrigues of the agents of the Inquisition, who were afraid of losing their authority,.ihe in fluence of the numerous tribe - of Monks in Srain, who dreaded a reform, have in this dritical moment occasioned the insurredion of several Spanish pro vinces, in which the voice of the more prudent class has been either mistaken- or stifled, of whom not a few have fallen victims to their courageous Opposi tion to popular tumult, and a dreadful anarchy has been seen to diffuse itself over the, greates.t part of Spain. Will your Majesty permit 'Eng land to be able to say, " Spain is one of my pro-_ vinces, my flag, driven from . the Baltic, the North Sea, the Levan!, and even from the chores of Persia, rules in the ports of France ?" No, never, Sire ! Tu prevent so much shame and misfortune, two millions of brave men are ready to scale the Pyre nees, and the English will be chased from the Pe nin,ula. If the French fight for the liberty of the seas, they must,' to conquer, begin by wresting Spain from the influence of the tyrants'of the ocean. If they comb.n fur peace, they .cannot obtain it until they have chased from Spain the enemies of peace. " If sour Majesty, embracing the future as well as the present, aspires to the noble object of leaving after you your Empire calm, tranquil, :and Surround ed by poweritil friends, ybu must begin by securing its influence in Spain. • " Lastly, If honour is the first sentiment, as well as the first objet of Frenchmen, your Majesty must promptly inflict vengeance for the outrages com mitted against the French name, and the atrocities to which so great a number of our countrymen have fallen vidims. Frenchmen established- in Spain for More than twenty years, exercising in peace their useful industry, and almost rega r di ng Sp a i n a s t h a i r • country, have been massacred. Every where French property has been seiLed. The Consular Agents of your Majesty h ave experienced a treatment which would not have been sdiered even in the most bar barous countries. Wirat estimation, what consi deration, will the French name 'enjoy in Europe, if, Ina country so near us, atrocities so infamous and so public remain _unpunished. Reparation ought to be had for them—but a reparation consbnant tirfrench, men—by victory. " It is no small advantage the, probability of at length meeting the English, of fighting them man to man, of making them also feel theevils of war —of a war of the dangers of which they are igno rant, having only caused it by their gold. The Eng lish will be beateri, .destroyed, dispersed, or at least they will make haste to fly, as they did at Toulon, at the Helder, at Dunkirk, in Sweden, and every where where the French armies have been able to kind them ; but their , expulsion from Spain will be the ruin of their cause. Thi s l as t c h ec k will exhaiist their means, annihilating at the same time their last hopes, and peace will become more probable.— The wishes of,all Europe will in this contest be with France. France and Russia make common cause against England. Denmark supports with honour a • , contest which she 4id not priwbke. -Sweden, be- trayed and abandoned by the ally to whom an in .sane Cabinet has sacrificed her, has already lo3t her most :important provinces, and is hastening to that ruin which is the inevitable effect of alliance and • friendship with England. :s uc h will be the tate of the insurgents in Spain. When the contest becomes serious, the English will i• abandon Spain, after making them the sad bequest of a civil war—of a war for foreign-interests, and for anarchy, the most cruel of scourges. It will be for the wisdom and beneficence of. your Majesty to repair the evils of which they will be the cause. The Court of Vienna has constantly testified to your Majesty the most amicable intentions.; • indig nant at the policy of England, she has recalled her. Minister from London, sent back the Minister who was at Vienna, shut her ports against England,' and placed herself in a 'state of hostility with that Power. She has added to these measures an intardia in her ports against the admission of vessels, which; tinder a neutral flag, are only the carriers of • English pro duce and inerchandize. ".Your iVJajesty has cultivated this favourable dis position ; has testified to the Court of Vienna friend ship and confidence; and has several ,times intimated to her, that France takes a real interest in her pro sperity. Lattctly, however, this Power has carried 'its armaments beyond measure—its military force is out of all proportion to its population and finances. Your Ministers,, Sire, only wish to remark this in order that your Majesty may perceive the necessity of augmenting your force,' for the purpose of still preserving the relative superiority which exists be tween the power and the population of the two Empires. " A new revolution has broken out at Constanti nople. Sultan MUSTAPHA has been deposed. " The Americans, a people who involve their for tune, their prosperity, and almost their existence, in commerce, have given the example of a great and courageous sacrifice. They have inhibited, by a general embargo, all commerce and all navigation, rather than - shamefully subMit to that tribute which the English impose on the navigation of all nations. Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland, are peaceable, and wait only .for a maritime peace to exert all their industry. That peace is-the wish of the world, hutartng land opposes it; ana England is the enemrof the world. The French nation, all Europe, knows the efforts made by your Majesty to obtain kace they know that your enterprizes are the immediate result of the ill success of the attempts which you have made to obtain it. " The devotion of the French people is without bounds; and it is more especially under : circum stances which are so essentially connecied-Witti-tneir honour and its security, that their sentimetAs be evinced, and that they will - shew themselves worthy of reaping 111.1 t harvest of glory and of hot nour which your Maje,ty lias‘prepaied for them: " I ain, 'with Tespcct, &c." MESSAGE OF THE EMPL:kOR AND KING NAPO- LEON I'o THE SENATE. SENATOR,--My Minister for Foreign 'Affairs will lay before you the different Treaties relative to Spain, and the Constitutions agreed to by the Spa nisi/ Junta. My War Minister will acquaint you with the wants and the situation of my armies in the different parts of the world. " I am determwed to carcy on the war with Spain with the utmost a,livity, and destroy the armies which England' has disembarked in that e‘mtry.— The future security of my subjects, the "Prosperity of commerce, anal a maritime peace, must alike dopend on these important operations. " My alliance. with the Emperor of RosstA extin guishes et - el hope which England can entertain from her po)jects. I have no doubts respe6ting the peace °, the Continent, but I neither will or ought to rely upon the false calculations and the- errors . of other , Courts, and since my neighbour!: increase their 'armies, it is a duty incumbent on me to in crease mine. " The Empire of Constantinople. is struggling with 'the most violent convulsions; Sultan Si t a m , the best Emperor the Ottomans have had - 'for length of time, has just fallen by the hands ot his own nephewS. This catastrophe has deeply affected me. I impose 'fresh sacrifices on my people, confident.of their support ; they are necessary, in order to secure them from heavier sacrifices, and to lead them to the grand result of a general peace, which ought also to be considered as the moment of repose. ." Frenchmen, my projects have but one objeEt in view, your happiness and the permatlent, , w4-ibeing of your children ; and it I know you right, yqu will hasten to, coinly with this new call, rendered neces sary by the interests of the 'country. YoU have so often assured me of your affection, I will behold the sincerity of yoUr sentiments in the alacrity with which you will second projects that are so intimately connected with your dearest interests, With the ho.- nour•of the Empire, and with..n - 1y glory. " Given at the Imperial Palace of St. Cloud, this 4th Sept. 1808. . (Signed) " NAPOCEON.". REPORT OF THE WAR MINISTER TO lIIS MA IESTY, THE EMPEROR AND KING., " SlRE,—l.have the honour of laying before your Majesty the state and situation of your Majesty's ar tnies.in Poland, in Prussia, and in Silesia, in Den mark, it Dalmatia, in Albania, in Isaly, Naples, and in Spain. I annex to it that of your Majesty's armies of reserve, at Boulogne, on the' coasts on the Rhine, and in the Interior. Your Majesty will per ceive that France never, before possessed more nu merous or better appointed armies, and that they were never better kept up, or better provisioned. " Notwithstanding, however, the different events which have taken place in Spain have occasioned a pretty considerable loss,, in consegtlence of an operation as inconceivable as it is paintul, of the di vision under Genet al DUPONT ; your Majesty has notified the resolurion you have taken or assestibling more than two hundred thousand men beyond the -Pyrenees, without, however, .weakening either the armies in Germany, or that of Dalmatia. For the attainment of thiS end, a levy of eighty thousand rm.'n appears to be indispensable. Your Majesty can only take these eighty thousand from the tour classes of the conscription of the years 1806, 1807, 1808, and 1809. "It is ascertained *by the registers kept in my office, that independently of the men who have mar ried within these inar years, the conscription for these years . might furn i sh hurr3t l / 4 ?: thousand.—`, In taking from that number a levy of eighty lion- Sand men, your Majesty will have called out only' one conscript out of seven, and the vacant es in this armies will be filled up with soldiers of Q i . 2,%, and 2 ' 3 years of age ; that is, with men fit'and prepared to undergo the fatigues of war. " Nor has it escaped your Majesty's foresight, that such a . R augmentation of force would necessarily e volve an increase of expence of several millions the War- Department. - It is not your Majesty's wish that I should detain your attention' with that object in this report : your Finance Minister has taken upon him to make good that charge, without in anywise increasing the taxes established by the bat " It is true, Sire, that the custom observed of late years, -might, to a certain degree, induce a part of your subjects to . consider themselves as released from the duty of the conscription, from the moment that, upon the total 'mass, they had furnished the contin gent required for the year; and under this point of vivv, what I propose to your Majesty, might. appear to. require from your subjects a sacrifice; hut, Sire, there is no one but knows, that by .the words of the law, your Majesty would be authorised to call. to your Standard the whole of the conscription, not only of the last four years, but even of the antecedent years ; and even were there question of a real sa crifice, what sacrifice is it that your Majesty has not a right to expeet, from the love of your subjects ? V/ho among us is ignorant :hat your Majesty wholly' sacrificed yourself for the happiness of France, and that upon'the speedy accomplishment of his high designs the repose of the world, the future safety. , and the re-establishment of a maritime-peace, with out which France can never enjoy calm and trail' quillity, depend. " In proposing to your Majesty to declare, that henceforth no retrospective call shall take place on an antecedent Conscription, - I only participate, Sire, your paternal wishes. . " I think it expedient, at the same tinie, to pro pose to your Majesty to order out the conscription of the year 1810; and to determine the amount of it, from the present instant, at eighty thousand men, to furnish the means, as occasion may require, of forming camps of reserve, and of protecting the coast in the spring time. 'This conscription would be raised only under the apprehension -Of a war with other Powers, nor would it . be called out before the' month of January next. , " Sire, it is a trnstortune inseparable from the re' sent state of Europe, that When one Power exceeds the amount of the forces proportioned to its popula" latiOn, the other Powers cannot dispense with en" creasing their's in the same proportion. " England, independent of the immense number Of .her seamen, has on foot an army of more thAll two hundred thousand men ; nor is 'she so much oc' cupied in every Session of her Parliament with any tling so much as with the increase of her land forces' The armies of Austria have been considerably in' creased. France, although she has "armies more numerous than all the other Powers, has, notwith standing, fewer men under arms than any of them, compared with her population. • " Your Minister for Foreign Airs assures me that a stria alliance subsisted between your Majesty and. Russia. The armaments of Austria have often excited my solicitude. The same Minister assured me, that the best understanding was kept up Austria, and t hat her levies shout..! only be eons eel either as precautions, or as thy effcCl of appeebo l '- sipns, which are forcibly impreSsed_on . every by the numerous Agents which England continua in pay on the Continent. " But if it does not belong to the business of my department to, dive into the views and interests ot States, and explore the tortuous labyrinth of •po:!' tics, it tS ftt le" my duty to ,neglect nothing to rriake your Majesty's :. armies maintain, at all points, tha t just superiority which they ought to I,sess. The, armies of Albania and Dal ma ti a , of Demnatk, an"' of the Übe, will not iiiio‘v of any diminution, unt-leC' the circumstances of the moment. " What I have to propose to your Majesty, Wil l give the army of Apain two hundred thousnd meri , without weakening the other armies ; so 't hat, no", withstariding the augmentatio n o f our force beyona the Pyrenees, wbeh - the conscription of 1810 shall be called out, your Majesty will have increased your armies of Germany, of the North, and of Italy, by more than eighty thousand men. " And when, in .order to escape the crisis Which she has, been-drawn by a take as well as:' tt angry polidv, the .English Govern men t, exe rtiPg.; every where its aaivity, does not hesitate to cow pine with the resources it draws from its inexhausti ble finances and its formidable fleets, the arts . of in trigue, of con uption, and itnposture, Auld it b!.. at all extraordi n ary t h a t t h e i mmense popu l at i on 01 , France should. hold out (li e s p o Ll ac l e o f a m i l li on 0L armed men, ready to punish England and all those whom she may seduce; and present every' where tlio same tinge una,f of force, to protea will) the saint; - shield the honour and security of Fiance ? " What other result,. Sire; is there to be experl - from armies so numerous, and a position so 1 " r :. midable, but the -speedy re-establishment of tranquillity of Spain, that of a maritime peace, o ir of that general tranquillity, the object of your 11 3 " jesty's'indessatit wishes ? Much blood will have bee ts spared, because a great number of men Will .been ready to shed it. A durable happiness, Pr'' pared by the combinations of your poy,erful genit l4 .o;,: will be the effe,a, Sire, of the new prools . olaffeC( o tion and attachme n t whi c h y onr peop l e w ill at ii you, and of the noble aspect of that nation, whici l your Majesty has pointed to posterity under the pato ° of the Great Nation. "'War Minister, and nmler this denotninati° the organ of the French so:dicrs, allow we, Sire, t c) be the interpreter of their •sentiments for you. Y(” 1r. Majesty shall always see Ili ready to sacrifice 00 lives for your. glory, which is inseparable trona_ t h e national glory, to which tou have so powertullY :added, and for the important interests-of the country. " I am, mitl) respect, &c.- [This Paper also contains the A& of Renunciai tion negotiated b e t ween t h e P r i nce o f P EACE an' Dunoc, by which C HARLES IV. an d t he P r ince ei ASTURIAS abdi ca t e d t h e i r r i g h t to t h e C ro wn °t. Spain to NAPOLEON.) PRICE OF STOCKS , THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. (Vs* Consols - - - 66 j Omnium - - - 6 1 7 thi 13r tru, be fro s;gi Wa; cati gear fish VT, Ail the ba g alio ed Stip wet des Bal scat of Rev ~~ o~ forn they rec e